Tag: The Fort Frances

[A]s spring approaches, is here, or is finally springing we’re going to need the bright sunny music that shines a light on the day. The type of music that you’ll sing all day long, chair dance, or just blast in your car with the windows down. Let a little sunshine in today with Chicago’s Fort Frances 2nd single off their upcoming EP, Harbour, out later this month. “I Had Love,” mirrors this spring transition, with bright bouncy sunny melodies, and an ever growing sound throughout the song. Good luck not singing along with the gang choruses’. “I Had Love” appears…

[C]hicago band Fort Frances has been a regular feature here on Music Savage, their folk-rock sensibility and songwriting always touches a nerve with us, and this one hit us once again. A song written as fall hits, and with the impending doom of the winter, songwriter found solace and even positivity in the barren existence that is a midwest winter, as if there were an optimism that the winter is actually the beginning of a new year, and ripe with possibility. That’s a theory I can wrap my head around, and the music seems to do the same. It’s an…

Fort Frances – The Only Living Boy in New York (Simon & Garfunkel Cover) Fort Frances – The Lowlands The boys of Fort Frances have pulled off a few covers, and this to me is one of them. The staple Simon & Garfunkel song from their classic record Bridge Over Troubled Water, is aptly covered here and may make you thirsty for a good listen of the original. But I’d like you to also consider checking out Fort Frances, a Chicago three piece who released a really good record last year. I’ve taken the time to also share their track…

Fort Frances – The Lowlands Check out this new track from Chicago folk three piece Fort Frances. Maybe you missed it, but I posted on their absolutely gorgeous video and song “Cities in Dust.” At the time, they were giving away their album The Atlas (one which I enjoyed quite a bit), and today they are releasing a brand new track titled “Lowlands,” an ambling acoustic ballad. Their music is a healthy dose of folk/acoustic and singer David McMillin’s voice is perfect for the poignancy of this song. The stripped down nature of the song makes it feel all that…